Detecting Reuse of Biblical Quotes in Swedish 19th Century Fiction using Sequence Alignment

@inProceedings{Kokkinakis-Dimitrios2015-225762,
title = {Detecting Reuse of Biblical Quotes in Swedish 19th Century Fiction using Sequence Alignment},
abstract = {Text reuse, a form of text repetition, recycling or borrowing, is a theoretically and practically interesting problem that has attracted considerable attention during the last years e.g. in the cultural heritage context (historical and comparative linguistics); in the context of social network propagation of ideas and in the measuring of journalistic reuse. In this paper we briefly outline and experiment with a method used for biological sequence alignment that have been also used in humanities research for e.g. the detection of similar passages in the complete works of Voltaire and 18th century French encyclopedias or for tracing how and which ideas spread in 19th century US-newspaper collections. We use available software (text-PAIR: Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations) and experiment with the Charles XII Bible translation into Swedish, completed in 1703, against the content of the Swedish prose fiction 1800-1900, in order to automatically detect passages taken from this particular Bible translation in the prose fiction corpus.},
booktitle = {Corpus-based Research in the Humanities workshop (CRH), 10 December 2015 Warsaw, Poland },
author = {Kokkinakis, Dimitrios and Malm, Mats},
year = {2015},
ISBN = {978-83-63159-19-1},
pages = {79--86},
}